Life: Its Nature, Origin, Development, and the Psychical Related to the Physical

Vertebrate Life in America. - Tertiary Mammals.— Size of Female Brains
in London, Paris, and Berlin. —Intellectual Women. - Dr. Dunglison's
Statement. Bounds Set Up by Nature.-Proportion of Male and

Female Births.- Bars to Upward Intellectual Progress.- Necessity for

Large Brains. - Bain's Theory. Brains of Noted Men. Higher

Classes Running out. - Nature's Demands. - Greeks v. Englishmen.

- Early Races and Moderns. - Hopes for the Future

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CHAPTER XI.

NECESSITY OF SOME KIND OF BELIEF.

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Decline of Religious Belief in Europe. - Belief in Immortality. - Effect

of Loss of Belief.- Poorer Classes in Italy. -Effect of Atheistic

Teachings. - Belief of Buddhists. - Religious Sentiments a Part of

Man's Nature. - Dangers Attending Loss of Belief. What is the

Perfect Moral Standard? Upon what must it be Based? - Teachings

of Jesus Christ. - Kant's Theories of Belief. -Descent of Man from

Lower Animals. When does Moral Responsibility Commence ?

Conscience as a Guide. - Uncertain Moral Standards. - Herbert Spen-

cer's Ideas. Precepts of Jesus Christ the Very Highest. - Did He

Inherit His High Moral Sense? - Former Beliefs.

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CHAPTER XII.

BELIEF IN GOD.

Religion and Religious Theories Confounded. — Religious Sceptics.- Does

God Reveal Himself? Is One who is Compelled to Believe Morally

Responsible?-Speeches of Pasteur and Dumas. Life the Gift of the

Creator.-Existence of a Soul Separate from the Body.-Manifesta-

tions of Mind. Apparent Loss of Intelligence. - Distinct Individuali-

ties

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CHAPTER XIII.

MATERIAL SUBSTANCES AND IMMATERIAL ESSENCES.

Distinguishing Qualities in Man. - Immaterial Essences.

What may be
Unthinkable? - Unthinkable Things.- Personal Identity. - Person-
ality Indivisible. -Dr. Reid. - Hume's Ideas. - Etherized Matter. -
Molecular Action of the Brain.-Thought, How Produced, and What
Is It? - Unconscious Part of Our Natures. - Voluntary Acts. - Facts
of Consciousness. - Mind and Soul Appear to be Spiritual. - Abstract

CONTENTS.

Realities. - Existence of Space. - Invisible Power Which Underlies

Sound. Memory, What Is It? -- Bain's Theory of Cell-Growths. -

Gray Matter of the Brain. - Velocity of Sensations. - Different Quali-

ties of Brains and Bodies. - Performance of Moral Duties. - Sense

and Scent of Dogs. - Are Odors Material? — Moral Responsibility De-

pendent upon Moral Freedom. - Phrenological Examinations.-Moral

and Immoral Men Compared. - Doctrine of Reprobation. - Lecky's

Statement. Absurd Doctrines Taught .

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CHAPTER XIV.

CONCLUDING SPECULATIONS.

Animal and Spiritual Natures.-J. S. Mill's Ideas. Origin of the Sense

of Right and Wrong. -Was the Creation of Man a Benevolent Act?—

Is Man Morally Free? - Belief of Pagan and Infidel Philosophers in

Regard to a Future Life. - Consciousness of Moral Freedom. - Moral

Necessity. David Hume's Ideas Concerning Moral Necessity.- Con-

sciousness of Guilt. Is the Execution of a Moral Law Ever Sus-

pended? Propitiating Unseen Powers.

Scientific

- Forgiveness. -

Basis of Morals.-Overruling Power and Infinite Intelligence. - Mys-
terious Providences. - Benevolence of the Omnipotent Power.-Higher
Intelligences. Planetary Intelligences. Letter of Lord Byron. -
Dr. Raymond's Comments. - Different Kinds of Courage. - Appear-
ance of the Truth from Different Points of View. - Views of Different
Religious Denominations. What are Genuine Truths? - Scientific
Truths. Actual Truth. — Our Unconscious Natures Modify Our Views
of Truth. What We Certainly Know. — Belief in Miracles. — Reli-
gious Feelings a Part of Our Natures. - Simplicity of the Truth. –
Concluding Statement

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